Tuesday, June 10, 2025

Sixty-Nine Lives Arrived at Fundación Loros

By Alejandro Rigatuso, Fundador y Director de Fundación Loros

On June 11, 2025, CORANTIOQUIA transferred to Fundación Loros 69 animals: 38 blue-and-yellow macaws (*Ara ararauna*), 5 chestnut-fronted macaws (*Ara severa*), 11 red-lored amazons (*Amazona autumnalis*), 7 blue-headed parrots (*Pionus menstruus*), and 8 cotton-top tamarins (*Saguinus oedipus*). Those are the numbers recorded in the official transfer document. But the team knows well that the road is long before arrival, and that not everyone survives the journey. What is certain is that from that day forward — the morning of June 11, 2025 — there were more wings, and more life, at Fundación Loros.

About the author

Alejandro Rigatuso · Fundador y Director de Fundación Loros

Alejandro Rigatuso arrived at Fundación Loros after years as Vice President of Growth Marketing at Toptal, bringing with him an unconventional perspective: he knows an animal is well by its eyes, "bright, wide open." Lorenzo, the first parrot released, recaptured several times and always set free to fly again, marked him forever. At dusk, around five-thirty, you'll find him at the Mirador de las Ciénagas or wandering around Cerro El Peligro, envisioning observation towers and hundreds of native parrots soaring over a reserve that an entire community calls their own.

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